Just loaded this and found that it doesn't pick up the second optical drive on the system - when I insert a cd into the drive I get an icon pop up and when I double click on it I get this message:

A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

I have HAL enabled.

Also I noticed that when you are first given the option of changing the key map on installation that I can't change the original US layout - though I can later though that also does not take - I have a @ where the " should be and visa versa.

- It's not quite clear to me what the other kernel is for.. Is it just a newer version? Or does it have special abilities?

- I chose "Autoconfig" during configuration of X, this caused tiny fonts. Using 1024x768 looks a lot better. Even though auto also sets it up as 1024 x 768.

- I noticed that tilda has been included. While I'm a big fan of "quake style terminals", this one doesn't seem quite ready for inclusion on a stable release. It behaves quite badly when transparancy is used, and for some reason it doesn't seem to be possible to have it use the top 20 pixels or so, except after exiting the preferences screen. But after hiding / bringing it up again the top few pixels are not used by it again. I didn't have this problem with the package Uelsk8s built on beta 1 though (the transparancy problem was there as well).

Just loaded this and found that it doesn't pick up the second optical drive on the system - when I insert a cd into the drive I get an icon pop up and when I double click on it I get this message:

A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

I have HAL enabled.

Same result here. Also, the "mount devices" on the panel does nothing with respect to the one drive it shows (/dev/cdrom).

And to be honest I don't like the new art work... though that is just a matter of taste.

Also the menus for the various window managers/environments don't match, applications are missing from them, and I don't mean ones that are specific to the administration of that particular environment/manager.

I installed it today on my laptop, which had a very hard time with Beta 1. Good news and bad news.

First, the good news. I was able to get a successful installation using the sata kernel. That is, I had to typesataat the first prompt after the CD boots. First I had tried with the default kernel, but the installation halted after the first "floppy 0" line and required turning off the power switch. So I tried "sata" and that went all the way through without incident.

I did not install a boot loader and am using the CD to boot into the installation. I use the sata root=/dev/hda6 rocommand to boot. In contrast to Beta 1, I did have modules in lsmod. I had no modules in lsmod with Beta 1. However, some were missing that I thought should be there, so I'm still not sure that things are working right. I did install the proprietary nVidia driver, which seems to have worked properly. Startx brought up the nVidia screen and then XFce, which looked good and at 1280x800 (though I haven't confirmed that yet).

Now the bad news:* No sound comes out of the speakers. No sound has ever come out of the speakers, whether on VectorLinux 5.8 or 5.9 installed in a Linux partition or from one of the many LiveCDs I've tried. So that problem remains. It's obviously not VL's problem.* I tried to get my wireless working. When I got to themodprobe ndiswrapperpart, I got "ndiswrapper not found". When I ranndiswrapper -lthe only driver listed was the rtl8185 that I had just installed. Nothing else. So something seems amiss with ndiswrapper. Also, when I did ifconfig before I started working on the wireless, I got no eth0, which is odd because there is an Ethernet chip in the laptop and it works well with Linux. I would expect to see forcedeth in lsmod, but there was nothing there. It should have been added automatically.